Comments on: City Council Moves Forward with Controversial Desalination Plant http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2011/04/14/city-council-moves-forward-with-controversial-desalination-plant/ A Student-Run Newspaper Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Thinknodesal http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2011/04/14/city-council-moves-forward-with-controversial-desalination-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Thinknodesal Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:38:00 +0000 http://www.cityonahillpress.com/?p=16515#comment-278 The voters must decide this, in fact before they spend any more of our money on studies, reports, and consultants, they should first have full voter approval as this is a mad rush to push this huge, unneeded boondoggle down our throats and we’ll get stuck paying for it for the next 50 years after all the government workers who pushed this are long retired on bloated government pensions (which voters will also be stuck paying)

This seems mostly like a project for UCSC , so UCSC should pay for all of it.
We’re done, the city is full, so at some point we have to say enough and stop issuing water permits, in fact they should have stopped a long time ago as they well knew there wasn’t enough water 20 years ago!

These government elites don’t give a damn about spending taxpayers money, they just want more growth, to keep their jobs secure, and to grow this desal project into a huge gravy train boondoggle for the liberal government elites who have highjacked our city and our tax dollars. When you try to comment on their website or their facebook site, you can’t, they don’t want any negative public comments, just their one way propaganda machine. Same on twitter. The mailer they sent out also did not mention the cost of this project ONCE!

What’s going on here? This whole thing feels wrong…they are so eager and desperate to spend this $100 Million dollars and all voters should be very worried.

]]> By: Fp http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2011/04/14/city-council-moves-forward-with-controversial-desalination-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Fp Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:14:00 +0000 http://www.cityonahillpress.com/?p=16515#comment-271 The average price for desalinated seawater worldwide is $3000-$4000 per acre foot and to hear the willingness to pay the maximum price of $1,600 per acre-foot in today’s dollars is extraordinary when $500 per acre foot for drinking water from seawater should be of great interest and can be accomplished with Water Desalination International, Inc. Passarell VES desalination process. A patented distillation process, engineered and design to produces drinking water and leaves a marketable crystalline salts avoiding the harmful brine being returned to the sea. A distillation process consuming very little thermal energy preferably natural gas for its operations, constructed with materials and coatings for long life and low maintenance.
Installed with the smallest footprint.

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